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"We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours."
"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."
"I was determined to know beans."
"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
"I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue."
"It is good to live and learn."
"Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used."
"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."
"All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker."
"It is always in season for old men to learn."
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous."
"Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have."
"You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process."
"Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know."
"The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself."
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing."
"Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it."
"When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill."
